Strange tales about Paul Dirac

Attending a meeting in a castle, a fellow guest warned Dirac that a certain room was haunted by a ghost that always appeared at midnight. “Is that midnight Greenwich time, or daylight-saving time?” Dirac asked.

Classicist John Crook tried making small talk with Dirac in the Hall of St John’s College, Cambridge. Crook said, “Cold, isn’t it?” After long thought, Dirac replied, “How cold?”